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I was thinking about a comment I made to my intern last week. She has been studiously attending to all the different things I do in my day (what...
2019-10-02
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I was thinking about a comment I made to my intern last week. She has been studiously attending to all the different things I do in my day (what...
2019-10-02
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In my final post about gatekeeping in technology, I have to come clean about something. Let’s go through this journey together. In the first post we spoke about what...
2019-09-25
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In my home lab I have an Ubuntu virtual machine that runs both SQL Server 2017 and SQL Server 2019 in Docker containers. After SQL Server 2019 Release Candidate...
2019-09-18
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Recently I have become more vocal on Twitter and on my personal blog about my social activism. For the record, I have been an activist for LGBTQIA+ rights since...
2019-09-11
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In a previous post I wrote about storing password hashes in a database, which raises the question of how to convert an existing legacy password storage system to use hashes (or...
2019-09-04
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As regular readers of this blog will know, I’m a big fan of AzCopy, especially now that it has a sync option to keep local data synchronized with blob...
2019-08-28
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An exciting new feature in SQL Server 2019 is Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR). Resulting from a combination of magic beans and smart software developers (I might be wrong about...
2019-08-21
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Recently I wrote: Don’t store passwords in a database. I stand by this statement. I expected a lot of flak because I didn’t explain myself. This post goes into...
2019-08-14
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This is the second in a series of posts about gatekeeping in Information Technology and other fields. Negative terminology The language we use matters. In the first post I...
2019-08-07
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Hello, and welcome to today’s class on storing passwords in a database. Don’t store passwords in a database. Thanks for attending. Photo by James Sutton on Unsplash.
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2019-07-31
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By Steve Jones
I love Chicago. I went to visit three times in 2023: a Redgate event,...
By Brian Kelley
I have found that non-functional requirements (NFRs) can be hard to define for a...
You can find the slidedeck for my Techorama session “Microsoft Fabric for Dummies” on...
Testing with AG on Linux with Cluster=NONE. it was all going ok and as...
Hi, I have two tables: one for headers with 9 fields and another for...
We're trying to understand how quick new versions of SQL server can be. Obviously...
Let’s consider the following script that can be executed without any error on both SQL Sever and PostgreSQL. We define the table t1 in which we insert three records:
create table t1 (id int primary key, city varchar(50)); insert into t1 values (1, 'Rome'), (2, 'New York'), (3, NULL);If we execute the following query, how will the records be sorted in both environments?
select city from t1 order by city;See possible answers